Of the most critical things I think of-

2 June 2010
Kuala Lumpur

IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan said the public can depend on his police force as he reminds them that their job is to protect and assist the public and to behave themselves at all times.

He said 7,402 officers who were previously assigned for office duties have been deployed to the ground to do patrol duties since January this year. Assistant Superintendents and Inspectors are doing investigative work and over 5,000 lower rank officers are performing patrol duties and intelligence gathering.

This re-deployment exercise conceived by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak targets to achieve a police to population ratio of 1:300 from the existing 1:500 figure.

7,000 more have been deployed to work at 14 police contingents covering 147 district police headquarters and 757 police stations across the nation. 500 people will be recruited as sergeants who will do police investigations only.

Musa said with the larger police presence, the public feels safe when they go out and can expect cases to be resolved faster.

Agreed

Disagreed

Crime stats as gathered from 2001-2006

So basically as shown in this graph, robbery involving firearms have dropped drastically (definitely a good thing!), while the others fluctuated.

In this graph however, motorbikes' thefts have rose while thefts in general have escalated. Snatch thefts escalated as well, while motorcar thefts had rose a little. 

Yes, it differs. Although I am aware that this stats is rather outdated, but nonetheless I was never aware that motorbikes are among the most things stolen. I stand corrected. 

But anyway, this is rather outdated (as I have tirelessly pointed out), and in general I would say that crime rates have increased over these few years. For more information, perhaps you geeks can visit this site http://asme.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/crime-rate-in-malaysia/. 

In Japan and Singapore, littering is illegal I believe, but here in Malaysia, you can easily find chewed/ hardened chewing gum under seats in the library/ LRT/ on streets etc. See the whole contrast?

There might be more but Imma stick with this first to investigate how different mentalities can affect the types of crimes people commit. 

Ta-ta,

Nicole X.

Crime

Crime is a wrongdoing which is punishable by law. A crime is breaking the law.

Cool stuff for geeks:

• One in every three Australians is a victim of crime. 
• Two-thirds of the world's executions occur in China.
• Saudi diplomats have 367 unpaid parking fines in Britain. 

I find them interesting because I don't think Australia has a very high crime rate and yet 1 in every 3 Australians is a victim of crime. As China overtook Japan in the world economic ranking recently, it's very surprising to find two-thirds of world executions that occur in China. And the last is just very surprising!

In my opinion, crime rate in Malaysia is quite high. The most popular crimes in Malaysia are:

Snatch-theft

Kidnapping

Others include:

Rape

Murder

Stealing

Counterfeiting

Those are very terriblestupidnonsensehorribleyuckydisgusting crimes, so make sure you dont indulge in them. 

I think that crime in Malaysia is rather high. Although our country is quite safe, but this doesn't mean that our country has a low crime rate. Snatch thefts costs a lot of lives in Malaysia. There was a case where a pregnant woman died after the incident of snatch thefts. In that incident, both the mother and her baby died. And this is only one in a million, possibly thousands of millions in Malaysia's snatch theft incidents. 

Kidnapping is equally as bad. In Malaysia, kidnapping cases are quite serious.

2007- Nurin Jazlin got kidnapped when she went to the wet market. When found, she was murdered.

2008- Sharlinie got kidnapped when playing in a playground. She is still missing and NOT FOUND.

So as you see, there ain't any major differences. In fact, my views were quite similar to Jasmin's. I don't find these two activities extremely difficult because as long as I am able to justify why I made my choice, I find my reasons valid. 

The most difficult choice we had to make as a group was the one on shoplifting. Zahir thinks that shoplifting should be ranked third, while Jasmin and me think that it should be ranked sixth, the reason being shoplifting rarely kills. Zahir ranked solvent abuse at sixth, but we feel that solvent abuse can lead to abnormal and dangerous addiction, which is quite harmful to our human body, thus it should be higher than six. That was one dilemma we faced as a group.

Which of these are crimes?

- driving under the influence of drugs

- drink-driving

- breaking into a car

- shoplifting

- shouting racist abuse

Which of them are victimless?

- solvent abuse

What kinds of punishment would you give to these offenses?

- rehabilitation

- fines

- community service

- educate them about the consequences

- deterrence

- incapacitations

How should repeat offenders be dealt with?

They should be warned and given 2 chances. If exceeded limit, heavy fines with requirement of community service should be imposed and dealt with seriously, depending on its severity.

Nicole X

Law and Criminality

Law is a double edge sword: it can kill you; it can save you.

Law is a set of rules to make sure that people do not commit crime. At most times, law is somehow related/ linked to crimes. In fact, law is the answer to crime (though sometimes not a perfect answer, but how can we get perfect answers in life? and so on. You get the point.)!

I think that crimes are problems in the society, and by enforcing laws, we can make sure that people do not commit these crimes. But I don't think that laws should be too restrictive to the point that human rights are overlooked.

Law also serves as a protection for us. It protects us as 'victims' and demands compensation from the 'attacker'. Law protects us from unseen dangers. This is indescribable because not all dangers are seen, some are well, abstract.

Let me give you an example where law protects you. Imagine you are a worker and you are often abused by your employer. You want to leave, but you are bound with a contract. Helpless, you can't leave. What can you do? This is where law comes in to protect you from your abusive employer.

If now I have planted the mindset on you that Law is heaven where equality and fairness is finally counted, then well, it seems a little harsh to say this but you are wrong.

Law is not as perfect as I narrated. Yes, it upholds justice but at times, law itself ain't fair. Why again? you ask. Well, nothing in the world is fair- that's a fact. We are humans, and no matter how many times we revise laws, it isn't going to be perfect and it obviously doesn't have the magical ability to please EVERYONE in the world. But what we can do is to try to make it as fair as possible.

And with the implementation of law, freedom is gone. Not completely gone but it depends on how you look at freedom. If freedom for you is to go out and unleash your inner violence with random children/ people on the street, then well, law prevented this catastrophe from happening. Good for the law. If freedom for you is to enjoy your life and do whatever you want with it, as long as it's not illegal, then law doesn't forbid you to do any of those.

Some people also says that law is what makes us civilised. I can only partially agree (though yes, without laws, we MIGHT be barbarians, but we don't know, so how can we assume?) but let me stress that law is not the bedrock of a cilivised society. Law does contributes a little but that is not the essence of civilisation. Law is just a teeny-weeny section of our civilisation, as our mindset and our habits and our technological advancements play quite a great part in civilisation.

Dear geeks who think that law makes us civilised people (such as but not limited to Maxwell and the rest of the people/ world who stands on his side),

Is law the reason that we are civilised? I have been pondering on this question for quite a few days and I'm glad to say I have reached a point where I can form a rebuttal in response to those who disagree with me. 

First of all, I admit that law do makes a civilised. In fact, law really does play a part in civilisation, but I'd say that the part law plays would be rather minute. 

When I say civilisation, images such as we, humans not living in caves, not wearing any clothes except a small leaf/ cloth to cover our private parts, not being babarians who eat up other humans, we wash our hands before we eat and after we do our business, we coexist harmoniously, we say please and thank you, we have languages (speaking English now), we are not rude people etc etc etc etc.

And how many of those I mentioned above is stated in the law? 

1. Is cannibalism ILLEGAL?
- fyi, it was legal in Mexico last time, but to my knowledge, not many countries have definite rules to address the issue of cannibalism. 
2. Is wearing a piece of cloth only covering your private parts AGAINST THE LAW? 
- yes in some Muslim countries due to their religious beliefs.
3. Is living in caves ILLEGAL?
4. Does law require us to wash our hands before we eat and after we have done our businesses?
5. Does law make us coexist harmoniously?
6. Does law require us to say please and thank you and have an appropriate moral conduct?
7. Does law tells us to converse in languages?

Do you see? I bet you have some answers to my questions but do you get the whole picture and the point that I'm trying to proof here? 

Yes, law does play a part in civlisation but I have to say hat law is not the essence of civilisation!

Some nice quotes I grabbed off the internet!

And the BEST for the LAST!

Sometimes, I couldn't agree more. (:

Law-ing,

Nicole X

PS- By the way, if you have any interesting answers to my question, please tell me by commenting below. I don't know everything, but perhaps you do have an answer. Please do comment. (: 

Guess what? It's better than Titanic.

HEY YOU geeks out there.

That was the video we made for our Feedback tips. (:

Well, yes I admit that it ain't as great as Titanic, but don't you think Bryan is pretty good with iMovies? After all, we are all amateurs! It was pretty ingenuous of Ksong to copy and paste the front part of our iMovie, don't you think? We wanted to create the effect that was pretty suspenseful with the eerie music in the background as you slowly go into the house which seemed like a murder scene- and turns out to be MAXWELL in the cupboard looking as if he's suffering from some serious emotional problems, in which he introduces you to the topic.

The reason we chose to use real case studies instead of virtual ones is that we want our audience to be able to relate to what are considered good and bad feedbacks. For those who are interested, you can access the blogs in the video to look at the examples we used for your own reference.

One thing I thought that we could have improved on is the timing of our presentation. As we didn't talk through the presentation before this, our timing weren't really good. For parts that we thought that we could have covered with our speech, it was too long and I guess audience will lose their attention span. Also, we should've zoomed into the typing texts because many audience failed to notice that it was typing. We should also have sped up the typing speed by at least 5! When presenting, only did I realise it was just too slow, as slow as a snail's pace!

So geeks, what do YOU think? (:

Ta-ta,
Nicole X